Washing-machine



rl. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHDQRAPER, WASHINGTON. D. C. I

UNITED STATES PATEN oEEIoE- WILLIAM WHEELER, OF ACTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 12,012, dated November 28, 1854.

' To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM l/VHEELER, of Acton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification.

Figure l is a front view of the machine. Fig. 2 a longitudinal section through the same. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. 4 a plan which will be hereafter referred to.

My machine is of that class in which a dasher or beater is caused to vibrate between two corrugated surfaces and thus beat and press the clothes while they are immersed in the washing liquid.

In machines of this character as heretofore constructed the clothes were liable to jam between the dasher and the ends of the machine and if the former was moved by a crank it was liable to be stopped by the wet clothes, and the crank could not be revolved until they were loosened up.

To remedy this inconvenience is the object of my invention which consists in the peculiar method of giving motion to the dasher which I will now describe.

The general features of the machine being sufficiently apparent from the drawings need not be here described.

A is the dasher which is pivoted to the upright-s B at a. The upper part of the vdasher is constructed in the form of a boX which is seen in plan at Fig. 4, within which works the eccentric C, which is attached to the shaft D. This shaft revolves in the uprights B and is operated by the crank E. The ends F of the box in which the eccentric C revolves are composed of flat springs of wood or other suitable material. These springs are secured atv the top and bottom only by screws Z) or otherwise, and thus as the eccentric revolves should the dasher be obstructed before it reaches the end of its path, the spring plates yield, the eccentric is allowed to pass, and the machine is not stopped.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is-- The within described method of giving motion to the *dasher of a washing machine by means of the eccentric C, operating against `the elastic plates F for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM WHEELER. Vitnesses:

SAM. COOPER, JOHN S. GLOW. 

